Yep. South Dakota's 3.5 pages of trapping regs barely changes from year to year. Most critters have open seasons except water creatures and bobcats. Bcats probably have the most restrictive regs but the season is only open West River and a few counties on the east side along the river in the south-central to southeast. No real quotas on anything. Everything is fairly straight forward.

Boco, I finally checked on Google Earth Pro for you. I tried actually yesterday but GE sort of flaked out and I couldn't get it restarted.

It appears for you Canadian bush people, and probably Alaska as well, you're probably out of luck using GE other than just get the lay of the land in a few years in the past. Boco's lat, long yielded 2 images in the "historical" slider, Aug 9 2014 and May 29, 2011 (if you believe GE's dates). My cousin's farm in se SD has at least 8 dates between the spring of 1998 and July 2015, although not all of those are really very clear so not good, sharp high-res stuff. I have 10 dates over the property that became my house ranging from 1991 through last year. The most recent one was when there was a neighborhood wide rummage sale going on, an interesting pix.

Google doesn't either fly any of its own satellites or aerials, at least not yet or what they'll admit to. They use imagery that they mostly can get for free, so that tends to be various government agencies or commercial entities that the federal gov supports in various ways. The Canadian gov uses the U.S. Landsat satellite system (2 birds flying right now, although one is old and semi-crippled) that have 30 meters resolution with the multi-spectral bands (think various visible and non-visible "colors") and 15 m pan (b&w). Might see really large beaver dams at that resolution but not individual lodges and such. The things that the Can forest service (forgut the formal name) cares about mostly are monitored at the landscape scale- logging, fires, insects and disease so your gov probably doesn't fly much for high res aerial over the bush OR if they do, they don't give the imagery away for free. Or Google, for whatever reason, doesn't want it or can't get it. Don't know.

So, yes, you Canuks were correct, GE is pretty limited and probably dated for the bush. For guys in the lower 48, most places have fairly good high-res imagery within the last 2-3 years but nowhere probably has "real time" meter or so resolution unless you're "special" for various reasons.

Anyway, we're just talking the "civilian" government here. The national security assets are a whole different world. Not my gig.

Nothing to look at here but trees,lol.They probably went crosseyed the first time.
Thanks for checking it out pcfed.

That’s all lol , I can do that easy here too in the southern part of Ontario where I live , whole different animal in the north lol

Ontario is a shell of the beaver it produced in the 70-80’s this province produced 200,000 beavers a season at one point , good management and lots of water can do amazing stuff

What kind of trap do you set for a cougar? We can only black trap bears with a rifle in BC, is it the same for cougars there? Cougars aren't even considered fur-bearers. There are general open seasons for them for hunting however.

Doug